Howard Alexander Smith, 1880-19660

Howard Alexander Smith was born in New York City, on January 30, 1880. He attended the Cutler School in New York City, graduated from Princeton University in 1901, and received his law degree from Columbia University in 1904. He was admitted to the New York bar that same year and opened a practice in New York City.

In 1905 he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado and continued to practice law until 1917. During the First World War, Smith served in the United States Food Administration in Colorado and Washington, D.C. He became a member of postwar relief organizations in 1918.

In 1919 he moved to Princeton, N.J., where he served as executive secretary of Princeton University until 1927. He became a lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University from 1927-1930, and resumed the practice of law in New York City in 1932.

He was the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from 1941 to 1943. He was a member of the Republican National Committee in 1942, and was elected on November 7, 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour. He was reelected in 1946 and 1952 and his total term of office served from December 7, 1944, to January 3, 1959. He was not renominated in 1958. While in the Senate he served as chairman of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare in the Eighty-third Congress. He was also special consultant on foreign affairs to the Secretary of State from 1959 to 1960. He died in Princeton on October 27, 1966.